. Ref: 1. "The Genealogy of William Tobias Phillips.....", 1989, Elza B. Cox, p 175, 275, 329, 402.. He says that Crockett Duncan, b Aug 1857, was the s/o George R. Duncan and Nancy Duncan, but "not sure".. 2. "The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia", Franklin F. Webb, p 205: This gives different versions of Crockett's. parentage. One is that his "parents, whose surname may have been Nester, were drowned while crossing Little River as. part of a wagon train headed west. The infant Crockett, too small for an older brother to care for, was left to be raised by a. John Duncan family, whose last name he took as is own". Or he "was born between 1854 and 1860 (as calculated from. various census entries) to David William Duncan and Sarah Nester Duncan, who died of a fever in 1861. David Duncan. remarried in 1863 but at some point Crockett was taken in by the Benjamin Duncan family and was listed as a member of. that household in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. When his father, step-mother, and siblings left for Indiana about 1875,. Crockett, who was by then at least 15 years old, stayed behind.".